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Stag attack woman: ‘I’m lucky to be alive’

Dr Kate Stone still has to feed herself through a tube seven weeks after she was brought out of a medically-induced coma, following the horrific accidentLook East/Geoff Robinson

A scientist who was gored by a stag in the Highlands has said she feels “lucky to be alive” after the attack.

Speaking for the first time since the incident in December, Kate Stone revealed that she could have been paralysed or killed had the antler gone millimetres deeper.

The 44-year-old Cambridge academic, who runs a printing business, was walking with friends in the garden of a house in Lochairlot, near Fort William, when the animal attacked.

Dr Stone spent several days in a medically induced coma and had two operations on her trachea. She has to feed herself through a tube as she awaits further operations. She said: “I tell people I meet, ‘Life is short and at any moment something can happen us.’…